Posledniy patron

Summary

Emerging from the crucible of the Russian Civil War, 'Posledniy patron' functions as a kinetic extension of the seminal agitprop poster 'Citizens, hand over your weapons!'. Directed as a celebratory artifact for the first anniversary of the Red Army, the film navigates the precarious transition from Tsarist vestiges to Bolshevik consolidation. It centers on the ideological urgency of disarmament, where the titular 'last cartridge' symbolizes the final, desperate resistance of the old world against the encroaching tide of revolutionary order. Andrei Smoldovskiy’s script strips away the bourgeois artifice of narrative fluff, presenting a stark, didactic sequence of events that positions the state's survival against the individual's hoarding of munitions. N. Turkin provides a performance characterized by the raw, unpolished intensity typical of early Soviet cinema, acting less as a character and more as a living embodiment of the proletariat's struggle for stability in a landscape ravaged by internal strife and external intervention.

Synopsis

The film was an illustration for the poster "Citizens, hand over your weapons!". It dedicated to the first anniversary of the Red Army.